1. Urbanization

2. Urban Growth:

3. Dumbell Tenement

4. How did Urbanization affect society?
AIM:
How did Urbanization affect society?

5. Negative affects of City Growth
1. Housing
Tenements- multifamily buildings
Immigrants and working class families crowded into these buildings
Neighborhoods became slums
Crime flourished

6. Dumbell Tenement, NYC

7. Tenement Slum Living

8. Tenement Slum Living

9. Lodgers Huddled Together

10. Negative affects of City Growth
2. Health
Urban crowding spread disease
Water and sanitation facilities were inadequate
Poor families could not afford proper diets and lacked knowledge of basic health procedures

11. Negative affects of City Growth
3. Politics
Political machines took control of many governments
Provided help to the poor in exchange for votes
Corruption plagued society

12. Positive Effects of Urbanization
1. New Technologies
Subways, trains, and street cars improved transportation
Gas and electric lights made streets safer
New water and sewage systems
skyscrapers

13. Positive affects of Urbanization
2. Cultural Advances
Public and private money funded museums, concert halls, theaters, and parks
New printing presses turned out mass circulation of newspapers, magazines, and novels
Public schools increased eductaion

14. Positive affects of Urbanization
3. Community Improvements
Jane Adams- Hull House- provide education and services to the poor
Political reforms to fix problem of corruption

15. The Urban Mixture 1. Workers and the poor
Most immigrants belonged to this group
Lived in slums and poor neighborhoods
Company towns

16. The Urban Mixture 2. Middle Class
Doctors, lawyers, office workers, and skilled laborers
Buying consumer goods and had money and time for leisure activities

17. The Urban Mixture 3. The Wealthy
Entrepreneurs and wealthy business people
Smallest segment of urban life